Su's Page (Lesanne and I visited these breakout sessions)

Dr. Michael Wesch "Keynote and Follow-Up"

Books to read:

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Purpose Driven Course

• exploration stage
• guided introduction to the filed
• self-guided research
• publish research paper
• share with world (video, website, etc.)

Lucy Gray "Going Global: Preparing Students to be Citizens of the World"

lucygray.org

Websites to visit for "going global" ideas. Google them.

• Arlington Heights School District 25
• Apple Distinguished Educators
• EF Tours
• Apple Learning Interchange
• Classroom 2.0
  • ning great tool for building your own website
• The Global Education Collaborative--Lucy Gray's site
  • you can join
  • 1500 members right now
  • up since 2007
  • cluster map, free to embed in your website

Examples of global projects

• Around the World in 80 schools
  • Conversation with 80 schools over 6 months
• SKYPE
• Thar She Blows
  • TakingITGlobal project
  • whaling community--whaling around the world project
  • uses google earth
  • movies and slide shows
  • website as a collection spot
  • primary source documents
• PhotoBooth (photos, video, green-screening)
  • green-screening means removing regular background and replacing with an image
  • Mac software
• iChat AV
• Garageband
• iWeb
• iPod and iPod Touch
• huckleberry by eCam
  • mirror that lets you film out into the audience not just you to use with iSight camera
• Digital recording device or web site-Gcast
• think.com (Thinkquest) is a collaborative workspace
  • can publish things within your school
  • can publish out into the world
• Blogs and wikis
  • blogs--linear
  • wikis--nonlinear

Project partner sites

• iEarn
• ePals
• Twitter
• Global Ed Collaborative
• YouTube--Dance by Matt Harding

Jen Wagner "Your Classroom, Your Tools"

jwagner.pbwiki.com

Tools:

• blogmeister--free blog cite for teachers
• wikispaces.com
• voicethread
  • add image, add voice, save
  • becomes a webpage you can put on your webpage or whatever
  • Read: VoiceThreads: Extending the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums
    • http://www.edutopia.org/voicethread-interactive-multimedia-albums
• wetpaint--create a free website about anything you like
• pbwiki
• delicious
• edublogs
• 2nd grade ning--second-grade-teachers.ning.com
• secondgradeclub.ning.com
• Classroom 2.0--www.classrom20.com
  • many, many users
• EdTech Mailing List
• www.h-net.org/~edweb/
  • email comes to you
• Find a scientist--www.sciencechicago.com/content/find-a-scientist
• Books and Authors in your classroom--www2.scholastic.com/browse/read.jsp
• Follow and Learn--iditarodblogs.com/teachers/
• What is a ning?
  • an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks
  • a social community
  • chat and messages
  • more specific to a topic